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G. E. POLAND. ORAVAT FASTENING.

No. 254,503. Patented Mar. 7,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. POLAND, OF MANASQUAN, NEW JERSEY.

CRAVAT-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,503, dated March '7, 1882.

Application filed July 18, 1881.

.To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE E. POLAND, of Manasquan, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in (lravat-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

Oravats have been made with a hook that passes up over the edge of the collar-band, and

in some instances plates have been used, to which the cravat or how was sewed.

My invention relates to the combination, with the metal hook or hooks that pass over the edge of the collar-band, of a base-plate for the cravat, having a notch at the upper edge to set behind the collar-button, the hooks being made of wire in a peculiar shape and connected to the base-plate.

In the drawings I have represented in Figure 1 the base-plate and hooks, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the said plate, the parts being in enlarged size for greater clearness.

The base-plate a is preferably of metal, but

it might be of celluloid or similar material. It

will usually be made with rounding corners and with holes near the edges, through which the threads pass by which it is attaehedto the cravat or how. In cases where the base-plate is used with a cravat that has a band passing around the neck there will be a pin, 1), soldered to the plate for the band to be pinned by after it is passed around the neck. This is the usual way of fastening such bands. The upper edge of the plate a is recessed backward] y and notched, as at c, so'that this part sets up beneath and behind the collar button to steady the cravat and hold it from lateral motion.

The cravat is suspended by the hooks i, that catch over the upper edge of the collar-band. I prefer to have these hooks separate; but the wire of which they are composed might pass from one hook to the other. The wire is folded in forming the hooks, so that they are adapted to catch into place, and the ends of the wire are shielded by the portion of the hooks against which they lie, so that the wire will (No model.)

not scratch the neck. The wirefrom each hook passes down in front of the baseplate a, and is bent into a spring-coil, e, at the angle, and from there it extends to the eyelet h, or similar fastening or place of attachment. It is preferable to make the two books and the coils out of one piece of wire, so that there will be sufficient elasticity in the coils to allow of hooking the hooks over the shirt-collar and then drawing the plate a down until its upper edge will spring back behind the collar-button.

The guide-fingers 0, behind which the vertical portions of the wires slide, are preferably made of metal tongues cut from the plate a and bent up to shape, as indicated in the separate section, Fig. 3. 1 7

By making a central coil of wire around the eyelet h the same becomes a spring and the flange of the eyelet keeps the same in the proper position.

The foundation-plate for cravats has been notched on its lower edge, and the hooks have not been made as springs. In my cravat it is necessary to employ spring-hooks, so that they will yield, when the base-plate is drawn down below the collar-button, for the said collar-button to enter its notched upper edge.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with the base-plate having a notched upperedge to set below the collar-button, of spring-hooks to hook over the collar-band, substantially as set forth.

2. The spring-hooks for a cravat or how, formed of one piece of wire with coils, in combination with the plate and the guides thereon, through which the wire slides, and the attachment for the center of the wire, as set forth.

Signed by me this 13th day of July, A. D.

G. E. POLAND. Witnesses:

WILLIAM G. MOT'I, LEMUEL W. SEER-ELL. 

